Snowball Fight!

For one of my fun activities earned by learning their last month's song so well we had an indoor "snowball" fight.  The original idea came from here with my own twists of course.

I handed out 1/4 cut papers and told them to write down their favorite primary song and their name.  As they did this, I began to get my winter clothes on.  Wool hat, scarf, coat, gloves, etc.  I think I left the boots at home!

When they had their papers ready I told them to squish them into a ball!  (they were pretty hesitant to do this at first so I actually had to show them).  Then I told them we were going to have a snowball fight with me as the target!  They loved the idea.  On the count of 3, with a few false starts, they all got to throw their "snowballs" at me, while I tried dodging and ducking.

When they were done I picked one off the floor and we sang that song. 

I even saved all the snowballs and thought I'd do it again sometime.

Originally I was going to have them throw at each other in two teams, but I could see a few of them getting carried away.  I may try this version with a smaller group and spread them apart a little more.

Another variation I thought of but didn't do at the time was that each person's song I picked got to borrow one of my winter clothes to wear, so it would take a while for me to get "undressed" and I would play up the idea of being too hot or too cold, etc.

No matter what way you do it, a big hit all around and the teachers got a kick out of it too!  (next time I'll have to get them in on it)